I HAVE noted that one of the 11 steps announced in the
Malaysia Education Blueprint (2013-2025) is the subject of building
unity among students.
It has been spelt out in the blueprint the need to enhance and expand the Students' Integration Plan for Unity to facilitate interaction across school types.
It has to be emphasised that the Education Ministry has a vital role to play in uniting the nation. The task of meeting this challenges has to be shouldered by teachers who are the agents or role models for interracial integration and unity.
Parents also have to play a vital role in planting the seed for a 1Malaysia among their children by encouraging them to have friends from different races.
While the government has a major role to play towards achieving unity through its policies and actions, it is also necessary for our children to be educated on unity with the participation and involvement of the parents.
With each passing day, Malaysian youths must relentlessly break down the racial divide, reach out and make friends with those from other ethnic groups.
Children and young people of diverse races should be taught to respect one another in the spirit of 1Malaysia.
Unity should be the guiding principle for all schools in their activities ranging from sports to co-curricular activities to foster interracial understanding.
Programmes need to be introduced and initiated to bring together pupils from national, Chinese and Tamil primary schools to allow them to interact and make friends in the larger interest of nation-building.
Unity and harmony must be embedded in our culture and there must be more opportunities for children and young people of diverse races to meet and forge closer friendship and understanding for the sake of our nation's future in the interest of 1Malaysia.
Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye, trustee, 1Malaysia Foundation
New Straits Times Online
Tuesday September 10, 2013.
It has been spelt out in the blueprint the need to enhance and expand the Students' Integration Plan for Unity to facilitate interaction across school types.
It has to be emphasised that the Education Ministry has a vital role to play in uniting the nation. The task of meeting this challenges has to be shouldered by teachers who are the agents or role models for interracial integration and unity.
Parents also have to play a vital role in planting the seed for a 1Malaysia among their children by encouraging them to have friends from different races.
While the government has a major role to play towards achieving unity through its policies and actions, it is also necessary for our children to be educated on unity with the participation and involvement of the parents.
With each passing day, Malaysian youths must relentlessly break down the racial divide, reach out and make friends with those from other ethnic groups.
Children and young people of diverse races should be taught to respect one another in the spirit of 1Malaysia.
Unity should be the guiding principle for all schools in their activities ranging from sports to co-curricular activities to foster interracial understanding.
Programmes need to be introduced and initiated to bring together pupils from national, Chinese and Tamil primary schools to allow them to interact and make friends in the larger interest of nation-building.
Unity and harmony must be embedded in our culture and there must be more opportunities for children and young people of diverse races to meet and forge closer friendship and understanding for the sake of our nation's future in the interest of 1Malaysia.
Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye, trustee, 1Malaysia Foundation
New Straits Times Online
Tuesday September 10, 2013.
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